If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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